3 Ways to Get Your Kid to Eat Avacado

3 Ways to Get Your Kid to Eat Avacado

March 18th, 2015

Raising Boys

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self” title=”Mango Tango” image=”3587″ img_size=”300×300″ img_link_large=””][vc_column_text]Combine 1 avacado, 1 cup mango and pineapple chunks. Viola! You’ve got a mango salad. This goes great with grilled chicken or put into a small container for your kiddo’s lunch.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self” title=”Chocado Pudding” image=”3588″ img_size=”300×300″ img_link_large=””][vc_column_text]Put together 1 avocado, 1 tsp cocoa poweder, 1/2…
Book Review: A World of Our Own

March 10th, 2015

Raising Boys

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]This is the book I’ve been waiting to share with my little boys their whole lives, and mine. Why, you ask? This book truly transports brown children into a world that looks like them and examines life from their perspective. A World of Our Own: The Beginning by Omar & Kimberly Finley takes children on…
4 Ways to Stretch Your Income Tax Return

February 10th, 2015

Raising Boys

Over the next few weeks many of us mamas are going to be overwhelmed with the feeling that the mall is calling us by our first and last names. It’s hard to resist the bombarding commercial sales pitches, the empty hanger in your closet that says you need just one more shirt for work and the small…
4 Ways to Get Over the Middle of the School Year Blues

February 9th, 2015

Raising Boys

This morning was a hard one. It’s another Monday and the children and I are doing our usual. They ate breakfast, I heated up the car and yelled to them to get their shoes on when I came back in the house. Then I remembered, we forgot to do our homework on Friday. I made…
5 Healthy Hair Rules Our Mamas Didn’t Know About

January 16th, 2015

Raising Boys

It’s been a long time coming, but finally many of us brown mamas are making our way back to long (or short if we want it), healthy hair. In order for us to do that, we’ve had to throw out many of the old-school rules that were snatching off our edges and clogging up our scalps. But the…
Big Earrings & Other Styles Brown Mamas Rock the BEST!

January 16th, 2015

Raising Boys

There’s something about a Black woman in Bamboo earrings that just sets the block off, any block. My dad always says it’s the way we walk. My husband says it’s our curves. Drake said it’s our natural hair and our big booties in them sun dresses…lol! I say that us brown mamas just bring rhythm to…
Beyonce: Are we Raising Too Many CEOs and Not Enough Husbands & Fathers?

November 19th, 2014

Raising Boys

I remember my days of single motherhood very vividly. The cold bus rides, enjoyable first baby moments spent alone and the endless nights where I wished I had a mate to share them with. While I also had some great moments as a single mom, like graduating from college with baby boy in tow, I…
4 Essential Commitments for Family Success

November 4th, 2014

Raising Boys

Persistence, resilience and an intense focus are characteristics often paired with creating a successful career or opening a new business, but what I’ve found is that it takes the same commitment to success to raise children and nurture a relationship. Each time you’re lifestyle and family gets an upgrade (whether its a new kitchen mat,…
3 Ways to Make Me-Time into We-Time

October 3rd, 2014

Raising Boys

Dinner and a movie get very boring after awhile. Me and Mack have been married for seven years now, and our days of dinner and a movie are definitely waning. In fact going out at all, since we have three children, just seems either impossible or too much of a task at this point. So,…
What to Do When Your Man Loses His Job

September 26th, 2014

Raising Boys

It’s been talked and joked about in many Black films. Black men, do not, under any circumstances tell your beautiful, Black wife when you lose your job. And the movies are partially right. No woman likes to think about the burden of an unemployed man. But mamas, less face it, our black men are often the last hired and…